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In reply to the discussion: "I don't think poor people should take from the govt" I busted out crying, "How can you SAY that?" [View all]lunatica
(53,410 posts)9. I used to drive older ladies like her to the opera
It was a volunteer job which I did so they could go out and do the cultured things they loved.
Once they all complained quite bitterly that they could no longer wear their fur coates because of the disgusting fanatics who throw paint on them. It was a real pity party.
They live and commiserate with each other in their own world. And in their ignorance they are blind to the people who volunteer their time to take them places. Evidently we are invisible like all the rest of the help.
Dont let people like that make you cry. They are so not worth a single tear. And youre right that they would never survive being poor.
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"I don't think poor people should take from the govt" I busted out crying, "How can you SAY that?" [View all]
jodymarie aimee
Nov 2018
OP
People don't know that the Catholic Church was a powerful supporter of unions.
olegramps
Nov 2018
#14
If you are interested this is my Nov letter...I am rich in many things, just not MONEY.
jodymarie aimee
Nov 2018
#8
Part of the problem that I've noticed is that the rightwingers see what they consider abuse of the
hostalover
Nov 2018
#26
Abuse of ER's? Isn't the ER where republicans told people without insurance to go?
Merlot
Nov 2018
#35
Right-wingers know how to stoke self-righteous sentiment in middle-class voters
sandensea
Nov 2018
#25
There used to be a time when people, including religious, believed in govt. help for poor
lovemydogs
Nov 2018
#46
Yeah, modern Christianity seems to be a perversion of what it used to be.
Zing Zing Zingbah
Nov 2018
#48